TCR, interpreted
Far above average
4.4 avg TCR
State profile · OSHA ITA
Texas workplace safety
How 38,394 OSHA-reporting employers across Texas compare on workplace injuries, 2016–2024. Average TCR uses the 32,225 establishments with a credible rate (see methodology).
- 38,394
- Employers
- 4.4
- Avg TCR (rated)
- 611,611
- Injuries (all)
- 542
- Fatalities (all)
Texas vs all states by OSHA-reporting employer count
Where this state's ITA establishment inventory sits among every tracked state and territory (coverage signal, not a safety ranking)
38,394 2nd of 54 higher than 52 of 54 states
States and territories, banded by OSHA ITA reporting employer count
Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more states. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count and share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source official public datasets · 2026
The state picture
Texas's 32,225 rated reporting employers average 4.4 recordable injuries per 100 workers, 1.6 times the ~2.7 all-industry private-sector norm.
- 4.4
- avg TCR · rated subset
- 32,225
- rated employers
- 38,394
- all reporting employers
- 611,611
- recordable injuries (all)
Inventory counts and injury/fatality totals cover all 38,394 ITA establishments; the average TCR excludes zero-rate and corrupt-hours filings. See Methodology → Three Populations.
A · 22% B · 13% C · 30% D · 18% F · 17%
17% of Texas's reporting establishments earn an F and 22% an A, each measured against its own industry benchmark, not the state line. These grades are a transparent derived index, not an official OSHA rating; see the Methodology for the exact formula.
Where Texas ranks among states
54 states & territories by avg TCRTexas's average TCR of 4.4 is lower than 91% of states, a state average reflects industry mix as much as workplace safety.
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A second cut tells a different story: ranked by rated-subset injury rate alone, Texas is #6 of 54. Ranked instead by fatalities per rated employer establishment (same 32,225-employer subset), it's #38 of 54, a 32-place swing. A state can run a moderate everyday injury rate while its rarer, most severe incidents cluster differently; the two metrics measure different things on the same population and shouldn't be read as interchangeable.
How Texas Workplaces Compare
Texas hosts 38,394 employer establishments currently reporting to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. These are not small shops: federal rules require ITA submission from workplaces with 250+ employees in any industry, plus workplaces with 20+ employees in the roughly 60 NAICS codes classified as high-hazard (construction, manufacturing, healthcare, warehousing, agriculture, and others). Across this Texas cohort, workers have logged 611,611 recordable injuries. The published state average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 4.4 injuries per 100 full-time workers uses the 32,225 establishments with a credible rate (zero-rate and corrupt-hours filings stay in the inventory counts above but are excluded from the average, see methodology).
The state has recorded 542 workplace fatalities in the reporting window, which is tracked separately from non-fatal injury counts because fatal events have their own investigation trail under 29 CFR 1904.39. Reading state-level TCR requires context: the headline figure is driven by a state's industry mix. A state with a heavy construction, logging, or meatpacking footprint will mechanically post higher TCR than a state dominated by finance or professional services, even when individual employers are equally well-managed. That is why the employer table below sorts each establishment by its own TCR and letter grade, against the BLS benchmark for its specific industry, not against the state average.
For jobseekers, relocators, investors, and local safety professionals, state-level pages function as an entry point: use the grade-sorted list to spot the safest and highest-risk employers in Texas, then click through to an individual establishment for its year-by-year injury, illness, DART, and fatality trajectory. Compare multiple years before drawing conclusions, a single outlier year can reflect a specific event, whereas a sustained pattern across reporting cycles is a more reliable risk signal. All data comes directly from employer-submitted OSHA Form 300A summaries. State OSHA plans in 22 states operate their own enforcement programs in parallel, but the injury data above is harmonized through the federal ITA system.
Employers in Texas, by injury rate
Page 193 of 768| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ross store 457 | Humble | Retail Store | D | 5.3 |
| 4054-Abs 0021 4187 | Mesquite | Supermarkets and Other Groce | D | 5.3 |
| Norstan Communications, Inc.-Richardson,TX* | Richardson | Wireless WiFi | F | 5.3 |
| TX043A | Houston | - | D | 5.3 |
| Hamilton Vein Clinic - Sugarland | Sugarland | Administrative management se | F | 5.3 |
| Brodie Ranch Nursing and Rehab Center | Austin | Skilled Nursing Facility | C | 5.3 |
| dd's DISCOUNTS Store 5113 | Irving | Retail Store | D | 5.3 |
| 15014 Waco, TX | Waco | Other Grocery and Related Pr | F | 5.3 |
| Brookdale Tanglewood | Houston | Assisted-living facilities w | D | 5.3 |
| SEDH 06 - Pasadena Branch | Pasadena | Beverages, wine and distille | F | 5.3 |
| 2429 - New Braunfels | New Braunfels | Discount Department Stores | D | 5.3 |
| St. David's North Austin Medical Center | Austin | General medical and surgical | B | 5.3 |
| Dickies | Fort Worth | General Warehousing | C | 5.3 |
| 8518 Brenham | Brenham | Home Centers | D | 5.3 |
| Courtyard by Marriott Dallas/Arlington | Arlington | Hotel management services (i | D | 5.3 |
| 372 Texas State University | San Marcos | School and Employee Transpor | C | 5.3 |
| Globus Medical Bone Bank Allografts | San Antonio | Organ donor centers, body | D | 5.3 |
| Texas Marine Conroe | Conroe | Boat dealers, new and used | D | 5.3 |
| McAllen-10th, TX - Biomat | Mcallen | Blood and Organ Banks | D | 5.3 |
| Big Lots Store #4566 Frisco, TX | Frisco | Retail Other | D | 5.3 |
| premier truck group of amarillo | Amarillo | Truck tractors, road, mercha | F | 5.3 |
| Villa Health Care Center Ltd. Co. d/b/a The Villa at Mountain View | Dallas | Skilled nursing facilities | C | 5.3 |
| 14107 Bandera Rd Helotes Texas 78023 | Helotes | Fire sprinkler system instal | D | 5.3 |
| 484363-Irv-Central Sta | Irving | Mail and Parcel Delivery | C | 5.3 |
| Heartis Waco | Waco | Assisted-living facilities w | D | 5.3 |
| USM Store #554 | Brownwood | Retail Grocery | D | 5.3 |
| Wenzel Associates Inc | Austin | Instruments, electric (i.e., | D | 5.3 |
| 3584 | Houston | Warehouse Clubs and Supercen | D | 5.3 |
| 8282 | Dallas | Warehouse Clubs and Supercen | D | 5.3 |
| Interlochen Health and Rehabilitation Center | Arlington | Skilled nursing facilities | C | 5.3 |
| Store #020 | Malakoff | Supermarkets | D | 5.3 |
| ELP - Remarketing 34RM | El Paso | Automobile merchant wholesal | F | 5.3 |
| Nw Houston, Tx | Houston | Other Direct Selling Establi | D | 5.3 |
| Ross store 1158 | Grand Prairie | Retail Store | D | 5.3 |
| Altra Industrial Motion | San Marcos | Ball joints (except aircraft | D | 5.3 |
| Aspen Beverage Group - Gonzales | Gonzales | Coffee roasting | D | 5.3 |
| JW Austin | Austin | Hotels (except Casino Hotels | D | 5.3 |
| Clayton Millworks of Texas | Hillsboro | Moldings, wood and covered w | D | 5.3 |
| Texco Holding Company | Houston | Chemical milling job shops | D | 5.3 |
| Dixie Plywood and Lumber Co. of San Antonio | San Antonio | Plywood merchant wholesalers | F | 5.3 |
| 533013-Waco | TX | TEX-765 | Waco | 485410 | C | 5.3 |
| Midwestern Healthcare Center | Wichita Falls | Convalescent homes or conval | C | 5.3 |
| 6840 Denton | Denton | Home Centers | D | 5.3 |
| Maya Management Warehouse #2382 | Dallas | Private warehousing and stor | C | 5.3 |
| Black Stallion, Inc. | El Paso | Concrete pouring | D | 5.3 |
| Healthcare Center at Patriot Heights | San Antonio | Nursing homes | C | 5.3 |
| Integrated Proteins - Baytown | Baytown | Blending animal feed | D | 5.3 |
| JR RAMON Demolition | San Antonio | Building demolition | D | 5.3 |
| Ashford Hall | Irving | Skilled nursing facilities | C | 5.3 |
| San Antonio TX Branch | San Antonio | Plumbing and heating contrac | D | 5.3 |
Nationwide states with similar injury rates or employer scale
Two PlainSafetyScore-derived peer sets for Texas: nearest states and territories by rated-subset average Total Case Rate and by OSHA-reporting employer inventory. These are cross-state neighborhoods, not the employer list above.
Similar average TCR
Nearest states by rated-subset Total Case Rate (4.4 here).
Similar employer inventory
Nearest states by reporting employer count (38,394 here).
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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainSafetyScore
Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.